Federation of Valenor (ehm-pyre uhv val-ehn-ohr)

Structure

The People's Assembly is the most active and effectual governing body within the Federation of Valenor, enacting legislation, managing finances, and maintaining significant investigative powers. However, it is not actually the most powerful body. Although it does not have as many powers, and they are not enacted with any frequency, the Valenoran High Council is the single most powerful jurisdictive body in the empire because of its ability to unilaterally make executive orders and declare military administration. Finally, the Prime Tribunal, although technically the weakest of the three bodies, is responsible for many necessary constraints on both the People's Assembly and High Council, with the ability to declare legislation passed by the People's Assembly in violation of the Valenoran Constitutional Charter and the ability to mandate the High Council to enact executive orders.

Demography and Population

The population of the Empire of Valenor was approximately 1.4 quadrillion around the time of the Pakxum-Valenoran War, although 50% of its population was concentrated in about a dozen star systems, with nearly 100 trillion inhabitants in the Tsor sytem alone. Another 40% of the population lived within an additional 30 or so star systems. Most of the remaining 10% of the population was spread throughout nearly 300 systems. Finally, an extraordinarily small contingent of the population, less than half a percent, mostly scientists, military personnel, and independent pioneers, were spread across the more than 1,100 additional star systems claimed by the Federation of Valenor.

Territories

Around the time of the Pakxum-Valenoran War, the Federation of Valenor had an externally recognized and colonially realized claim to 1,460 star systems. Although it claimed in some capacity various territories throughout another approximately 1,000 star systems, these claims were either unrecognized by foreign powers and/or had not been actualized by a considerable colonization effort. Of the Federation of Valenor's fully legitimate territory, its core 12 star systems, including Valenor itself, were fully colonized and exploited. The next level outward, including about 30 star systems, were mostly exploited in terms of resources but not quite as highly populated. Another 300 or so star systems were not nearly as populous and some resources within them remain untapped, but several megacooperatives ensured these systems did not go without exploitation. The final 1,100 or so systems that Valenor maintained a legitimate claim to were hardly populated whatsoever, with what little population they had mostly made up of touring military personnel, and their resources remained largely untapped. Although the United Civilizations, including the Empire of Valenor, had agreed not to make actual territorial claims outside the Milky Way Galaxy, Valenor controlled vast swathes of territory on the Andromeda Frontier, more than any other civilization in the UC. These systems were virtually only colonized by researchers, and a full inventory of their latent resources had yet to be taken.

Type

Geopolitical, Empire

Alternative Names

Valenor, Valenoran Federation

Training Level

Professional

Veterancy Level

Veteran

Demonym

Valenoran

Government System

Democracy, Representative

Power Structure

Federation

Economic System

Post-scarcity economy

Currency

The Empire of Valenor's official currency, the Valenoran Cardinal, traced its roots back to the Penthuran Cardinal, which served as the primary tender in various Penthuran nations in some form for millennia. Its physical denominations included a one cardinal note, five cardinal note, 10 cardinal note, 20 cardinal note, 50 cardinal note, 100 cardinal note, and 500 cardinal note. Metal Valenoran Cardinal coins were minted for only a few years after the fourmation of the federation, before being deemed an unnecessary waste of resources and discontinued. Soon after, they were discarded as legal tender, and in the following decades, their value greatly increased as the remaining number dwindled. In addition to the cardinal, the Federation of Valenor also accepted the Interstellar Credit, a centralized digital currency, as legal tender, due to its participation in the Interstellar Open Trade Association (IOTA) with the the United Nations of Humanity, the Federation of Lothi, and the Mavrad Republic of Lothi. Although the Valenoran Cardinal was more commonly used in the federation's core systems due to strong promotion by nationalist local governments, in the nation's outer reaches, where government oversight was limited and contact with other civilizations was common, the Interstellar Credit was more widely accepted. For a brief period, the Federation of Valenor accepted Etherium, a UNH-based cryptocurrency, as legal tender. Before the United Nations of Humanity made contact with the Empire of Valenor, Etherium was a nearly defunct cryptocurrency dating all the way back to the Age of Telepopulism, but its name's translation into Standardized Valenoran offered a unique marketing opportunity. The Valenoran word that translated as "ether" in English referred to the most popular conception of the afterlife to the N'xrough, especially in Penthuran culture. Seeing the opportunity before them, Etherium pivoted to marketing almost entirely toward N'xrough, and seemingly overnight, it became the single most valuable decentralized currency in the Local Group and was officially adopted by the FV. When the economic bubble inevitably popped, however, the currency decreased in value so drastically that it is often cited the death knell of all decentralized currency among IOTA members.

Legislative Body

The most powerful legislative body within the Federation of Valenor was the People's Assembly, made up of 119,157 representatives around the time of the Pakxum-Valenoran War. Until being rebalanced with the Federal Equality of Representation Order, these delegates represented vastly different-sized sects of the Valenoran population. The 53 provinces of the planet Valenor that first united under the Federation of Valenor each delegated one representative, with an average constituent population of 400 million per, but throughout the rest of the empire, each legislator represented an average of 10 billion constituents. The powers of the People's Assembly included the powers to make laws, raise and provide money and oversee its expenditure, impeach federal officers, approve tribunal appointments, approve treaties, and nominate High Councilors, as well as substantial investigative powers.

Judicial Body

The Federation of Valenor's highest court was the Prime Tribunal, made up of eleven tribunes appointed by the High Council, although these appointments could be vetoed by the People's Assembly with a supermajority. The powers of the Prime Tribunal included presiding over federal or otherwise sufficiently prominent litigation, vetoing the decisions of the High Council or People's Assembly if they were deemed to be in violation of the Valenoran Constitutional Charter, ordaining High Councilors, and mandating the High Council to issue executive orders.

Executive Body

The highest executive body and highest overall jurisdictive body of the Empire of Valenor was the High Council, made up of seven councilors nominated by the People's Assembly, ordained by the Prime Tribunal, and elected by popular vote. The High Council held several executive powers, including the powers to issue executive orders, grant reprieves and pardons, make treaties, appoint tribunes, declare war, and command the military, but its most authoritative and controversial power was the power to authorize the unilateral military administration of nonmilitary resources and territory, the latter of which was a power not originally granted in the Valenoran Constitutional Charter but bestowed upon it by the Prime Tribunal at the outset of the Pakxum-Valenoran War.

Controlled Territories